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Purin: proof that Japan can make custard powder even more kawaii

We could spend a year or more writing about Japanese sweets. And hey, maybe next year we’ll do that. Everything […]

We’ve all been there: trying to eat from a bag of potato chips and scroll on our phones at the

Soy sauce – or ‘shoyu’ (醤油), as we call it – adds that something extra to Japanese foods like ramen

Ramen noodles. A simple and fast, cheap, always-available Japanese meal… that hugely divides people. Is a pack of instant ramen

When we think of sushi, we think of those conveyor belt restaurants. Colour-coded plates of raw fish on rice, going

Sure, if you go by the Chinese new year starting in early Feb, we’re not there yet. But Japan started

DEJAPAN Staff / November 22, 2018

If there’s a Japanese food that divides people more than any other, it’s gotta be natto. You know what that

DEJAPAN Staff / September 20, 2018

Some people say Japan’s full of healthy food. We say: have you tried living here? After all that ramen, gyoza, deep

DEJAPAN Staff / September 3, 2018

In Japanese cooking, if it doesn’t come with rice, expect a pile of noodles instead. That, or noodles are the

There’s Japanese food, and then there’s food you can only get in Japan. Like snacks and food so spicy, you’ll

Q-pot is where real-looking fake food, kawaii-ness, and girly fashion jewellery meet. Don’t contain(er) your excitement, share it The Q-pot

A snack doesn’t have to be a big deal. Japan’s got words for ‘snack’ – okashi, oyatsu, otsumami. Stuff you